NO BAIL FOR DEFENDANTS NABBED TWO BLOCKS FROM MURDER

Two men will remain behind bars while awaiting trial on charges that they shot a young woman to death in an early morning attack that also wounded a young man, Suffolk County District attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

KADEEM FOREMAN and TERRELL RAINEY, both 20 and from Dorchester, were arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today following their July 14 indictments on charges of first-degree murder, armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, and unlawfully carrying a loaded firearm.

“As 24-year-old Toneika Jones was visiting with acquaintances just inside the foyer at 183 Harvard St., several shots rang out, one of which struck her in the abdomen,” Assistant District Attorney Gretchen Lundgren of Conley’s Homicide Unit told Clerk Magistrate Connie Wong. “Ms. Jones was taken to Boston Medical Center but died a short time later.”

Also injured, Lundgren said, was a 19-year-old male who was standing near Jones in the foyer. That youth suffered a gunshot wound to his arm and a laceration to his lip.

Lundgren said a Boston Police officer was conducting surveillance on Harvard Street in Dorchester when he heard gunshots and saw two men backing away from the building. The taller of the two, who wore a dark shirt with red on it, had his arm out and fired at least one additional shot at the vestibule; with him was another man dressed in a white T-shirt.

The two fled around the corner and turned onto Esmond Street with the officer driving behind them, Lundgren said. Other officers also began responding to the scene, Lundgren said.

“Within seconds, the surrounding streets were saturated with police,” Lundgren said.

The officer giving chase lost sight of the suspects as they fled through a yard onto Bicknell Street, but other officers quickly found and surrounded them as they hid behind trees in a vacant lot at 36 Gleason St. Foreman was wearing a blue shirt with red sleeves and Rainey was wearing a white T-shirt.

The total time between the shooting and the men’s arrests was less than five minutes, Lundgren said. When Boston Police traced the men’s paths of flight, they recovered two firearms – one a .38 revolver loaded with 9mm ammunition and the other a .380 semiautomatic handgun – that were later ballistically matched to the evidence at the crime scene, Lundgren said.

Catherine Rodruguez is the DA’s victim-witness advocate assigned to the case. Foreman is represented by attorney Michael Doolin and Rainey by attorney Stephen Weymouth. The case is scheduled to return to court on Sept. 14.